[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-appeals-court-keeps-pentagons-risk-label-on-anthropic":10,"sections":45},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":34,"tags":35,"sources":40,"feedback":44,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":44,"total_tokens":44},7799,"appeals-court-keeps-pentagons-risk-label-on-anthropic","Appeals court keeps Pentagon's risk label on Anthropic","A divided DC Circuit ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can keep barring Claude from military and contractor use, rejecting Anthropic's appeal.","Anthropic just lost its bid to get back into the Pentagon's good graces.\n\nA federal appeals court on Friday upheld the Defense Department's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a label that blocks the military and its contractors from running Claude models. The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 against Anthropic, rejecting the company's petitions to overturn the designation. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas wrote the majority opinion. The ruling keeps the Pentagon's restriction in place, at least for now.\n\nThis is a competitive problem, not just a paperwork one. Federal contracts are becoming a serious revenue line for AI labs eager to prove their models belong in security-sensitive environments, and a supply chain risk label is exactly the kind of flag that shows up in due-diligence checklists for years. Losing this appeal makes it harder for Anthropic to compete for federal business against rivals that carry no such designation.\n\nThe ruling doesn't establish that Claude is unsafe. It establishes that the Pentagon gets to make that call, and a divided court wasn't willing to overrule it.","[\"anthropic\",\"pentagon\",\"claude\",\"ai policy\"]","2026-09-25T16:24:59.000Z","2026-09-25T23:50:49.063Z","2026-09-25T23:50:54.218Z","published",null,[24,30],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"Convert the relative date 'Friday' to an absolute date, and strip or attribute the unsourced speculative claims not supported by the source material (Anthropic 'courting government customers as a growth avenue,' the precedent-for-other-agencies claim, 'no sign of an easy path to get it lifted,' and the dissent-as-appeal-thread claim) — keep the piece to what the ruling and cited reporting actually establish.","resolved",{"id":31,"reviewer":26,"round":32,"reason":33,"status":29},"editor-r2",2,"Remove or attribute the unsourced superlative claim that the Pentagon is 'the single largest technology buyer in the country' — it isn't established by the cited source and should be cut or sourced like the other speculative claims were.","policy",[36,37,38,39],"anthropic","pentagon","claude","ai policy",[41],{"name":42,"url":43},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Fanthropic-pentagon-supply-chain-risk-appeals-court-ruling",0,{"sections":46},[47,52,57,60,65,70,75,80,85,90,95,100,105,110],{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"AI","ai",4535,"2026-09-25T17:16:30.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Security","security",741,"2026-09-25T15:52:13.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":34,"count":59,"latest_published_at":18},"Policy",390,{"name":61,"slug":62,"count":63,"latest_published_at":64},"Deals","deals",256,"2026-09-25T17:00:53.000Z",{"name":66,"slug":67,"count":68,"latest_published_at":69},"Hardware","hardware",185,"2026-09-25T15:00:22.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Science","science",140,"2026-09-25T11:55:23.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",132,"2026-09-25T15:30:00.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Software","software",88,"2026-09-24T23:06:55.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",82,"2026-09-25T09:59:40.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"Startups","startups",76,"2026-09-25T18:33:59.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Gaming","gaming",48,"2026-09-25T18:35:21.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"General","general",46,"2026-09-25T02:12:57.000Z",{"name":106,"slug":107,"count":108,"latest_published_at":109},"Reviews","reviews",30,"2026-09-24T20:07:31.000Z",{"name":111,"slug":112,"count":113,"latest_published_at":114},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]